The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology
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J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. · Mar 2011
Metabolomic profiling of asthma: diagnostic utility of urine nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
The ability to diagnose and monitor asthma on the basis of noninvasive measurements of airway cellular dysfunction is difficult in the typical clinical setting. ⋯ This is the first report suggesting that (1)H-NMR analysis of human urine samples has the potential to be a useful clinical tool for physicians treating asthma.